{"id":63844,"date":"2018-04-23T06:56:45","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T06:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=63844"},"modified":"2018-04-23T06:56:45","modified_gmt":"2018-04-23T06:56:45","slug":"gmail-users-woke-find-spam-sent-accounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/technology\/gmail-users-woke-find-spam-sent-accounts.html","title":{"rendered":"Some Gmail users woke up to find spam sent from their accounts"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 18pt;color: #000000\">Some Gmail users woke up to find spam sent from their accounts<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">On Sunday morning, many Gmail users woke up to find spam in their sent folders. Understandably, many people\u2019s first thoughts were that their accounts were hacked. That does not appear to be the case, however, as some users reported that spam was still being sent from their accounts even after changing their passwords.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">\u201cMy email account has sent out 3 spam emails in the past hour to a list of about 10 addresses that I don\u2019t recongnize[sic],\u201d reads a post on the Google help forums. \u201cI changed my password immediately after the first one, but then it happened again 2 more times. The subject of the emails is weight loss and growth supplements for men advertisements. I have reported them as spam. Please help, what else can I do to ensure my account isn\u2019t compromised??\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">The content of the emails makes it clear that they are spam and include such topics as shady loans, male growth supplements, and other such things.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">Several users also reported that the spam emails appear to be linked to Telus, a Canadian telecoms company. The company has said that the emails were not sent from its servers and that it is currently working with its 3rd party vendors to address the issue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">In terms of account security, several users noted that had two-factor authentication on their accounts making it very unlikely that they were hacked.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">\u201cMy account is totally secured and has no access from anywhere but my PC and my phone,\u201d another user replied. \u201cAlong with 2 factor authentication. Still getting these spam emails from \u2018myself\u2019, come on google fix it up.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">Fortunately, Google is aware of the issue. In response to a tweet about the topic, Google\u2019s Seth Vargo said that the company\u2019s engineers are working on the problem.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 8pt;color: #000000\">Source:-https:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/computing\/gmail-spam-sent-folders\/<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/technology\/gmail-users-woke-find-spam-sent-accounts.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some Gmail users woke up to find spam sent from their accounts On Sunday morning, many Gmail users woke up to find spam in their sent folders. Understandably, many people\u2019s first thoughts were that their accounts were hacked. 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